Abstract
The article is intended to shed light on the theory of rhetoric in the context of social science in postwar Japan through a close reading of Fujita Shozo, a leading disciple of Maruyama Masao. By virtue of his analysis of Japanese militaristic imperialism, Maruyama had been regarded as a representative intellectual of the postwar period of Japan. In 1969, however, in the midst of the surge of the student movement, he was criticized as a representative of the Establishment. At the same time, Fujita attempted to reconstruct the methodology that he had inherited from Maruyama in order to respond to the social transformation catalyzed by the rapid economic growth. Considering the theoretical continuity and discontinuity between Fujita and Maruyama, this article scrutinizes the problem of rhetoric in the context of the sociology of the intellectuals
